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Family Crest Ring and Aunt Louisa

In 1973 my sisters and I visited an "old maid great aunt" (as she was known by the family) who was living in a nursing home in Philadelphia. Aunt Louisa Pickering [1897-1979] related stories of her childhood and memories of her grandmothers,Elizabeth Walker Pickering and Margarette Sterling DeMar.

Elizabeth traveled in heady upper-class circles and Louisa remembered seeing some of her ball gowns ...

Letter from Ina Friling

"Through your internet page I was very happy to find out that we have some ancestors in common, back in the 1780's.Your ancestor William Pickering (born 1782) had a younger brother Peter, he was born on 27 July 1785 in Aston, Sutton, Chester and he died 12 June 1865 in Wonneberg, Danzig, Germany.

The Pickering Familiy in those days were merchants and they had good connections to the Steffens ...

Family Trees

Family trees are fascinating, complicated, informative, sometimes beautiful, and often wrong.
It’s always exciting to discover a new family tree that has been handed down through the generations, but I have learned the hard way not to take them at face value. When a fifth cousin once removed sends you a family tree that was written by who-knows-who, just be careful ...